Honestly, I think they've always been around, they just didn't have a place to congregate online and feed off one another until Facebook blew up. You used to have to have a bit of Internet savvy to join a listserv, message board, etc., so it took some work to find a place to wallow in your obsessions, but that's not the case anymore. .

This is fair but still not right. The internet has been cultural steroids. It's allowed people to find other people with cultural picadillos, but then they feed on each other, until their fucking weirdness ends up exponentially weirder, whether that means meeting to fight in Temecula, meeting at a mall to perform some elaborate dance routine seemingly spontaneously, or meeting at 1am in 7-11 parking lots to hug a creepy, ice cream loving, violinist.

Had there been a full internet in the 90s,there would've been. Dmbfamily; but it's not the same as saying these people always existed, there was nothing like them even in the peak (98-03) of DMB.

It could also be that because the show wasn't scripted, they gave them a specific time limit for the song they were going to air in full and told them not to worry about the other one going long because it would be cut with the credits anyway. Again, it's very common for bands to cut their songs for TV time constraints.

This sound about right from what I've read before on TV appearances from other bands. You play two songs so they have plenty of footage to use, but only the one song is going to be played in full, and they have a time limit for it. In order for the band to still get the jam at the end in as part of the song, they had to cut it down somehow. The problem is that they somehow liked keeping it that way, which once again, was a poor decision. Personally, though, them dropping that verse never bothered me that much. It was a really well written verse lyrically, but I really don't think about it at all, and never was that upset over it.

__________________S'cuse me. (spits out Ricola) Its just so I know where it is, so I can get it after. Can't waste it, Ricola's delicious."-- DJM

This sound about right from what I've read before on TV appearances from other bands. You play two songs so they have plenty of footage to use, but only the one song is going to be played in full, and they have a time limit for it. In order for the band to still get the jam at the end in as part of the song, they had to cut it down somehow. The problem is that they somehow liked keeping it that way, which once again, was a poor decision. Personally, though, them dropping that verse never bothered me that much. It was a really well written verse lyrically, but I really don't think about it at all, and never was that upset over it.

The most upsetting thing about Grey Street these days is Rashawn Ross.